How To Install webcamd on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023  (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install webcamd on Ubuntu.

What is webcamd

webcamd is:

webcamd take images from your webcam and put it in your local web directory or upload it by FTP.

What it does:

• Take pics every X seconds.
• Add date & hour on pictures, with or without a border.
• Make HTML page for it.
• Stop camera, putting an offline webpage.
• To take pics when you want if the daemon is running.
• Upload pics by ftp on a remote server or create local file if a local web server is running.
• Customise HTML templates easily.

You can configure the program easily with a small and simple configuration file.

There are three methods to install webcamd on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install webcamd Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install webcamd using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install webcamd

Install webcamd Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install webcamd using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install webcamd

Install webcamd Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install webcamd using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install webcamd

How To Uninstall webcamd on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the webcamd package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove webcamd

Uninstall webcamd And Its Dependencies

To uninstall webcamd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove webcamd

Remove webcamd Configurations and Data

To remove webcamd configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge webcamd

Remove webcamd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove webcamd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge webcamd

Dependencies

webcamd have the following dependencies:

• libimage-magick-perl
• perl
• xawtv
• libnet-perl

References

• webcamd website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install webcamd package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.